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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Release Day Blast - Good Things: An Urban Fantasy Anthology

Good Things

An Urban Fantasy
Anthology

To Be Released: August
18th 2016

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Good things come from unexpected places...

BLURB

Good things come from unexpected places...

Magic and mayhem. Vampires and gods. Cops and werewolves. The
binding thread of mysticism in the modern world and acts of kindness, small and
large, random and focused. Join these ten authors as we travel through their
worlds.

All of the author proceeds from the sales of this anthology will
go to the Random Acts Organization, sponsoring kindness throughout the world.
This is not official Random Acts merchandise, but is a fundraising project
under permission from the charity.

Diantha Jones loves writing
fantasy books filled with adventure, romance, and magic. She's the author of
the Oracle of Delphi series, the Mythos series, and the Djinn Order series (as
A. Star). When she isn’t writing or working, she is reading or being hypnotized
by Netflix. She is a serious night-owl and while everyone else is grinning in
the warmth and sunlight, she’s hoping for gloominess and rain. Yeah, she’s
weird like that.

Angela B. Chrysler is a writer,
logician, philosopher, and die-hard nerd who studies theology, historical
linguistics, music composition, and medieval European history in New York with
a dry sense of humor and an unusual sense of sarcasm. She lives in a garden
with her family and cats.

In 2014,
Ms. Chrysler founded Brain to Books: the marketing promotional engine and
online Encyclopedia for authors. A passionate gardener and incurable cat lover,
Ms. Chrysler spends her days drinking coffee and writing beside a volume of
Edgar Allan Poe who strongly influences her style to this day. When Ms.
Chrysler is not writing, she enables her addictions to all things nerdy, and
reads everything she can get her hands on no matter the genre. Occasionally,
she finds time to mother her three children and debate with her life-long
friend who she eventually married. Her writing is often compared to Tad Williams.
Her influences are Edgar Allan Poe, The Phantom of the Opera, and Frankenstein.

Kim’ love of reading came after her mother introduced her to
Tolkien and the Hobbit, followed by Lord of the Rings. She also lovingly blames
her mother for her love of Science Fiction and Fantasy, thanks to being raised
on Star Trek. Kim has always had a vivid imagination, but it wasn’t until she
finished with graduate school (where she earned a Master’s of Science in
Geology) that she found she could focus her imagination into creating her own
characters and stories. Much of her writing has been for various play by email
or forum role play universes, though Kim does hope this will be the first of
many more stories she writes for publication.

When not writing, Kim can be found snowboarding, hiking, or doting
on her furry beasts.

For more
about Dariel, follow her blog or visit her website. She also publishes a new
release newsletter. If you enjoyed this book, please post a review on review
sites. You can also follow her and contact her on Twitter, Facebook, or
Pinterest.

Born a Connecticut Yankee in
nobody's court, Mia Darien grew up to brave snow and talk fast. She started
reading when she was three and never looked back, soon frequently falling
asleep with a book under her cheek. (Something she still does, though these days
it?s her Nook as often as a paperback.)

At
eleven, she discovered Night Mare by Piers Anthony and entered the world of
grown-up fantasy fiction and it was all over from there. She started writing at
fourteen, then met vampires as a teenager and the concept for what would become
Adelheid was soon born. Epic fantasy remains her first love, but she enjoys
writing whatever stories come to mind in any genre.

Now she
loves both writing and helping her indie community with her freelancing. A geek
till the end, she enjoys role-play by email games and World of Warcraft when
she has the time. Married to her very own Named Man of the North, she lives
with him, their mini-tank (also known as their son) and pets, who usually act
more childish than the child.

Award-winning paranormal and
contemporary romance author, Abigail Owen was born in Greeley, Colorado, and
resides in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two adorable children who are
the center of her universe.

Abigail
grew up consuming books and exploring the world through her writing. A fourth
generation graduate of Texas A&M University, she attempted to find a
practical career related to her favorite pastime by earning a degree in English
Rhetoric (Technical Writing). However, she swiftly discovered that writing
without imagination is not nearly as fun as writing with it.

Born a small town Missourian,
Crystal grew up in a time where reading was used for her escape from the
everyday worries of a young girl. She then began developing ideas of how
she would write a book and what she would do with her characters. Soon,
idea came to typewriter and then thankfully computers.

Her love
of reading is not centered on one specific genre, but with her writing, she has
a tendency to stay with the romance genre. Whether it be modern day
romance or paranormal romance, and a lot of steamy, she enjoys writing a story
where characters find love in one another no matter how twisted their lives.

She has
written several stories for charity to date and continues to write novellas and
novels. She is an indie author with a large imagination and even larger
heart. She is married with four children, (even though two of them have
four legs). She works full-time as a pediatric nurse and when she isn’t
acting goofy with family, you can find her reading or writing.

Kat Jameson has been having just
plain wicked thoughts for about as long as she’s been writing, so it seemed
like a very natural progression that the two would end up together. She is a
woman who seems perfectly average on the outside, but believes in a great
capacity for the power of love and the joy of sex and thinks constraints should
be put on neither so long as everyone involved is happy. So that’s what she
writes about.

Christi Rigby lives in Colorado
with her husband and her two teen boys, rounding out the group is a bernese
mountain dog and an old orange cat that can't seem to sleep in the morning past
the need for some kibble at 5 am, then returns to the bed after it has been
vacated but the owners. She has written a number of short stories for
publication and is working on her first book to be published. When she is not
writing at a keyboard she is always writing in her mind, so to say writing is
her real life over the job she holds would be a fair representation. An avid
guide along the path to geekdom for her children and friends, she is a fan of
comic books, any number of Science Fiction/Fantasy television shows and movies,
computer and console gaming, and just about anything Scandinavian or British
Isles in nature. One day she hopes that her choice to make writing her life
will lead to a visit to the Isle of Man.

Jessica Nicholls is originally from Northern
Illinois. She lived in the Northwest of England for just over ten years, where
she studied and had her children. Jessica still lives overseas with her husband
and two school age kids. Running, reading and watching films are her favourite
hobbies. She loves spirits, passionate love stories, vampires, shape shifters,
mythology and almost anything historical. The most important thing for her is
for a story to feel real, something to genuinely escape into. Writing the type
of stories she would enjoy reading is a passion.